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Company Overview

Buchalter is a full-service business law firm serving businesses, entrepreneurs, individuals, and organizations, with more than 90 years of operating history. Its Franchise Law Practice advises emerging and established franchisors on legal matters involved in launching, expanding, operating, financing, enforcing, and transferring franchise systems.

Services Offered

• Franchise formation, disclosure, registration, renewals, franchise agreements, and franchise-sales compliance.
• Franchise relationship counsel involving defaults, terminations, transfers, renewals, system standards, training, audits, investigations, and dispute prevention.
• Franchise litigation, arbitration, regulatory proceedings, and appellate strategy for disputes and enforcement matters.
• Related legal support across corporate transactions, M&A, employment, real estate, intellectual property, tax, privacy, cybersecurity, supply-chain, insolvency, and insurance-recovery matters.

Value Proposition

• Industry Specialization:
• Franchise law for franchisors, franchise-related businesses, and select multi-unit operators across a range of industries; Buchalter also has broader business-law capabilities that can support systemwide legal needs.
• Key Benefits:
• Helps franchisors establish and maintain core regulatory and contractual infrastructure, including FDDs, franchise agreements, registration strategy, and sales compliance.
• Provides coordinated counsel across operational risk areas that often affect a franchise system, including employment, joint-employer exposure, IP, supply chain, real estate, and vendor programs.
• Supports both proactive dispute prevention and formal enforcement or litigation when franchisee relationships deteriorate.
• Franchise Expertise:
• The firm maintains a dedicated Franchise Law Practice chaired by Tom O’Connell, CFE. Its published franchise materials address system-critical issues such as franchise disclosure, terminations, transfers, post-termination trademark enforcement, distressed-franchisor risks, and franchisee lost-profits litigation.